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55. Then said Ganglere: What tidings are to be told of Ragnarok? Of this I have never heard before. Har answered: Great things are to be said thereof. First, there is a winter called the Fimbul-winter, when snow drives from all quarters, the frosts are so severe, the winds so keen and piercing, that there is no joy in the sun. There are three such winters in succession, without any intervening summer. But before these there are three other winters, during which great wars rage over all the world. Brothers slay each other for the sake of gain, and no one spares his father or mother in that manslaughter and adultery. Thus says the Vala's Prophecy:

Brothers will fight together And become each other's bane; Sisters' children Their sib shall spoil. Hard is the world, Sensual sins grow huge. There are ax-ages, sword-ages— Shields are cleft in twain,— There are wind-ages, wolf-ages, Ere the world falls dead.